Individuals from across the political spectrum, including both Joe Biden and Donald Trump, keep calling on Israel to end the war in Gaza as if Israel can do so. The reality is that the Arabs have been attacking Israel and refusing peace for nearly a century, and they are not going to stop just because a lot of Western politicians tell them to.
Before Israel had its modern rebirth, the Arab Muslims were already refusing to live in peaceful coexistence with a Jewish state. Almost as soon as Israel came into existence, Arabs attacked it. Hamas has committed itself to the genocide of Jews and wiping Israel off the map, and a significant majority of “Palestinians” (over two-thirds) support Hamas still.
What do Westerners not understand about this completely clear and consistent situation? One might as well have told the German Jews to end the struggle with the Nazis. Israel can win this particular conflict, but it cannot determine when the brainwashed Gazan jihadis will stop fighting.
The Democrats, of course, including Biden, have either been aggressively demanding a ceasefire from Israel or actively supporting the Palestinian fighters. Aid is pouring into Gaza thanks to America, which is even building a pier there, where the overwhelming majority of civilians support jihad against Israel and Hamas in particular.
Unfortunately, some Republicans and conservatives don’t seem to understand the situation either (we have seen that on Twitter/X in recent weeks with She-Who-Should-Not-Be-Named). For instance, Trump, while still looking for Israel’s victory, urged the nation to “finish up your war” since so much of the world has a false but negative view of Israel. That would be all well and good if Israel really could finish the war.
Don’t get me wrong; I think Israel can win this conflict. But until every last Hamas member is killed, including those hiding in foreign countries like Qatar, and until every last brainwashed Muslim has been deprogrammed on the subject (and there are 50 Muslim nations, many of whom, if not all of whom, are biased against Israel), then Israel will always have to deal with the reality of war.
As we know from experience, no amount of appeasement on Israel’s part can change that because ultimately the Muslim militants do not want Israel to exist at all. The “Palestinians” were invented as a “people” for the express purpose of conquering Israel. That is why the Palestinians have always refused a two-state solution.
State Freedom Caucus Network’s Greg Price provided a good summary of Israel’s long struggle for survival (more details on Jewish Virtual Library):
1947: Arabs reject the UN partition plan to create a Jewish and Arab state. Wage war against the new nation of Israel. Lose more land than the partition gave them.
1967: Israel wins yet another war against its Arab neighbors, conquering Gaza, the West Bank [i.e., Judea and Samaria] and Sinai in a defensive war. The Arab League declares the "three no's": No peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, no negotiations with Israel. Israel voluntarily hands control of the Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism back to the Islamic Waqf, and made it illegal for Jews to pray there.
1979: Israel voluntarily hands the Sinai back to Egypt, returning land conquered in a defensive war.
1993: Israel recognizes the sovereignty of the Palestinian Authority over the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the Oslo Accords. Yasser Arafat uses it to support terrorism.
2000: Israel offers Yasser Arafat recognition of a Palestinian state in all of Gaza and 94% of the West Bank with East Jerusalem as its Capital. Arafat rejects it and launches the Second Intifada.
2005: Israel pulls out of the Gaza Strip, dismantles all its settlements, and forces Jews to leave their homes. Palestinians respond by electing Hamas who turn it into a terror state.
2008: Israel offers Mahmoud Abbas once again recognition of a Palestinian state in all of Gaza and 94% of the West Bank with East Jerusalem as its Capital and even offered to dismantle all their settlements. And once again, the Palestinians reject it.
2010-2021: Hamas launches periodic rocket attacks against the state of Israel and builds terror tunnels in order to kidnap and murder Jews while using the people of Gaza as human shields against the IDF.
2023: Hamas commits the worst act of mass murder against Jews since the Holocaust.
The October 7 atrocities should’ve made it crystal clear to the world that Hamas is a completely evil terrorist organization. Reportedly, a majority of Palestinians still support Hamas' control of Gaza and the Oct. 7 massacre. A Hamas official vowed to repeat the Oct. 7 attack “again and again” until the “annihilation of Israel” is achieved. Israel cannot end this war once and for all. Only Hamas and its many Muslim supporters can do so, and they refuse to do so.
